What is a DDoS attack? If you've been playing an online game and experienced high latency, or even a drop in connection, you might've been the victim of a DDoS attack. These incidents can be highly ...

As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...

On Monday Elon Musk conducted a much-anticipated interview with former President Donald Trump on X (formerly Twitter), a platform the billionaire CEO of Tesla bought in 2022. But the conversation ...

According to new data released by Netscout, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise. There were 17 million such attacks in 2024 – up from 13 million the year before. It’s an ...

Following many worldwide disruptions over the day, Elon Musk acknowledged on Monday that X is being targeted by a significant cyberattack. "A significant cyberattack against 𝕏 occurred and continues ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. ChatGPT saw an outage last week which has been blamed on a ...

"A defender needs to be right every time, but an attacker only needs to be right once" is a well-worn saying among cybersecurity professionals. In other words, an intruder has unlimited time and ...

How do distributed denial of service attacks take down school networks? Find out what cybersecurity experts have to say about this disruptive cyberthreat. Adam Stone writes on technology trends from ...

On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

In what’s becoming something of a habit for OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT is down for some users still today, with the company’s latest status update pointing to “periodic outages” still being ...

A YouTube influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers is encouraging followers to conduct cyber warfare against Russia. In a plea made this week on his ...

Plenty of gamers have tried to log on to their favorite live-service game, only to encounter login queues, crashes, and downed servers. While natural traffic can sometimes cause these situations, DDoS ...